EP3730449A1 - Vehicle lift device - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a vehicle lift device.
- a vehicle lift device provided with a pair of left and right raising/lowering devices on both sides in a left-right direction orthogonal to an approach direction of a vehicle in a maintenance work area where the vehicle enters and stops at a maintenance site, each of the raising/lowering devices having an undulating link device constituted by a plurality of links and having a vehicle support table (for example, a lift table and a turning arm) that supports the vehicle mounted on the undulating link device.
- a vehicle support table for example, a lift table and a turning arm
- each link is displaced along the vehicle approach direction (in other words, a vehicle longitudinal direction).
- Patent document 1 JP 2018-203382 A
- the vehicle lift device described in Patent document 1 has the following problems.
- each of the raising/lowering devices has directionality in the vehicle approach direction so that the vehicle approach direction with respect to the vehicle lift device is restricted to one direction.
- An object of the invention is to secure a wide maintenance work space immediately below a lifted vehicle in a vehicle lift device to improve the maintenance workability and to enable improvement of the productivity.
- the invention according to claim 1 is a vehicle lift device including: a pair of left and right raising/lowering devices provided on both sides in a left-right direction orthogonal to an approach direction of a vehicle in a maintenance work area where the vehicle enters and stops at a maintenance site, each of the raising/lowering device having an undulating link device constituted by a plurality of links; and a vehicle support table that supports the vehicle and is mounted on a top of the undulating link device, in which each of the links of the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction to perform an undulating operation so that the vehicle support table is raised and lowered only in a vertical direction while being kept in a horizontal state by the undulating operation.
- the invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, further including a pit provided in the maintenance work area defined on a floor of the maintenance site, in which the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices has at least two links including a first link, which is pivotally supported by a rotating support portion, arranged near one side of the pit along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction inside the pit, and a second link which is slidably supported by a sliding support portion arranged over the one side to another side of the pit along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction inside the pit.
- the invention according to claim 3 is the invention according to claim 2, further including a movable plate that is provided at a pit closing position to close a central part of an opening sandwiched between the raising/lowering devices on both sides when the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is raised from the opening of the pit, and is provided at an in-pit housing position to be housed inside the pit when the vehicle support table is lowered to a lift-down position.
- the invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to claim 2 or 3, in which, when the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is positioned at a lift-up position and an intersection of the first and second links is arranged to be higher than each of existing front and rear work floors, a triangular inter-link gap, formed immediately below the intersection and above the work floor by being sandwiched between lower edges of the first and second links below the intersection, faces each of the front and rear work floors.
- the invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 4, in which each of the links constituting the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is configured using an assembly of two link members that form a pair, and each of two link elements constituting each of the link in the raising/lowering device on a left side and each of two link elements constituting each of the links in the raising/lowering device on a right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the vehicle approach direction.
- each of the raising/lowering devices has each movable pit cover that is attached to a constituent link of the undulating link device to be capable of accompanying the undulating operation of the undulating link device, and when the vehicle support table is positioned at the lift-down position, the movable pit cover of each of the raising/lowering devices closes a part of the opening of the pit, which is not closed by the vehicle support table in the opening of the pit, and is separated upward from the opening of the pit during a process in which the vehicle support table is raised from the lift-down position.
- each of the raising/lowering devices pivotally supports a lower end of the first link by the rotating support portion provided on a rack inside the pit, slidably supports a lower end of the second link, which has a length twice a length of the first link, by the sliding support portion provided on the rack inside the pit, pivotally attaches an upper end of the first link to an intermediate link together with a midpoint of the second link, pivotally attaches an upper end of the second link to the vehicle support table, pivotally attaches both ends of a first sub-link, which has an identical length to the first link, to the rack and the intermediate link to form a parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the first link, the first sub-link, the rack, and the intermediate link, and pivotally attaches both ends of a second sub-link, which has a length half the length of the second link, to the vehicle support table and the intermediate link to form a parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the second link, the second sub-link,
- a vehicle lift device 100 is provided with a pair of left and right raising/lowering devices 20 on both sides in a left-right direction Y (vehicle width direction) ( FIGS. 1 , 12 to 17 ) orthogonal to an approach direction X (vehicle longitudinal direction) of a vehicle 1 ( FIGS. 1 , 12 to 17 in a maintenance work area where the vehicle 1 approaches and stops at a maintenance site as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 .
- a pit 10 ( FIG. 2 ) is recessed in the maintenance work area defined on the floor of the maintenance site, and the pair of raising/lowering devices 20 are housed inside the pit 10.
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 has an undulating link device 30 constituted by a plurality of links, and has a vehicle support table 40 (a lift table 41 and front and rear turning arms 42 and 42) which supports the vehicle and is mounted on the top of the undulating link device 30.
- vehicle support tables 40 has the lift table 41 provided on the top of the undulating link device 30, and has the front and rear turning arms 42, which enable lifting of a lower surface of the vehicle 1 that has entered the vehicle maintenance work area and stopped, at both front and rear ends of the lift table 41 to be capable of turning.
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 enables the undulating link device 30 and the vehicle support table 40 to move inside and outside the pit 10 through an opening 11 of the pit 10 provided at the same level as the floor of the maintenance site by the operation of a raising/lowering actuator (raising/lowering cylinder device in the embodiment) 21.
- the undulating link device 30 of each of the raising/lowering devices 20 performs an undulating operation to be capable of ascending and descending between a lift-down position where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned at each of left and right main opening portions 11A ( FIG. 1 ), a part of the opening 11 of the pit 10, to close the main opening portion 11A and a lift-up position where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned above the pit 10.
- each link is displaced along the left-right direction Y orthogonal to the approach direction X of the vehicle 1. Further, the undulating link device 30 of each of the raising/lowering devices 20 keeps the vehicle support table 40 in a horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction.
- the undulating link device 30 of each of the raising/lowering devices 20 has at least two links including a first link 31, which is pivotally supported by a rotating support portion 13, arranged near one side (near the outer side) of the pit 10 along the left-right direction Y orthogonal to the approach direction X of the vehicle 1 on a rack 12 inside the pit 10, and a second link 32 which is slidably supported by a sliding (or rolling) support portion 14 arranged along the one side (outer side) to the other side (inner side) of the pit 10 along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction X of the vehicle 1 on the rack 12 inside the pit 10.
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally supports a lower end a of the first link 31 by the rotating support portion 13 provided on the rack 12 inside the pit 10, slidably supports a lower end a of the second link 32 having a length of 2 ⁇ L1, which is twice a length L1 of the first link 31, by the sliding support portion 14 provided on the rack 12 inside the pit 10, pivotally attaches an upper end b of the first link 31 to an intermediate link 33 together with a midpoint (the center of the length of the second link 32) c of the second link 32, and pivotally attaches an upper end b of the second link 32 to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41) as shown in FIGS. 5A to 6C .
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a first sub-link 31S having the same length as the first link 31 to the rack 12 and the intermediate link 33 to form a parallelogram link mechanism 20A by four sections of the first link 31, the first sub-link 31S, the rack 12, and the intermediate link 33.
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a second sub-link 32S, which has a length half the length of the second link 32, to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41) and the intermediate link 33 to form a parallelogram link mechanism 20B by four sections of the second link 32, the second sub-link 32S, the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41), and the intermediate link 33.
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 attaches a movable pit cover 50, which will be described later, to the second sub-link 32S.
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally attaches a cylinder proximal end of the raising/lowering cylinder device constituting the raising/lowering actuator 21 to the rack 12, and pivotally supports a distal end of a piston rod of the raising/lowering cylinder device by an intermediate portion of the second link 32.
- each of the links 31, 32, 31S, 32S, and 33 constituting the undulating link device 30 is configured using an assembly, obtained by connecting two link elements (link plates or link bars) (regarding the first link 31, a set of two link plates 31P and 31P shown in FIG. 21A ) using a connecting member (regarding the first link 31, a connecting member 31R shown in FIG. 21A ), and each of the two link elements constituting each link in the raising/lowering device 20 on the left side, and each of the two link elements constituting each link in the raising/lowering device 20 on the right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the approach direction X of the vehicle 1 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 21A to 21C .
- front and rear fixed pit cover 15 are provided to be flush with the floor of the maintenance site (instead of providing the respective fixed pit covers 15, the floor of the maintenance site may be extended to both the front and rear sides of the pit 10).
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 can move the undulating link device 30 and the vehicle support table 40 (the lift table 41 and the turning arm 42) inside and outside the pit 10 through the opening 11 (the left and right main opening portions 11A and a sub-opening portion 11B at the center) sandwiched between the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 in the pit 10 by the operation of the raising/lowering actuator 21, and can ascend and descend between a lift-down position ( FIGS. 5C and 6C ) where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned at the opening 11 of the pit 10 to close the opening 11 and to be flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 and a lift-up position ( FIGS. 5A and 6A ) where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned above the pit 10.
- FIGS. 5B and 6B show a lift intermediate state.
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 has the two parallelogram link mechanisms 20A and 20B described above, each length of the first link 31, the first sub-link 31S, and the second sub-link 32S is set to L1 and the length of the second link 32 is set to 2 ⁇ L1.
- the vehicle support table 40 (the lift table 41 and the turning arm 42) can be kept in the horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction along the same vertical line V ( FIG. 6 ) as described above.
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 has a movable pit cover 50 that is attached to a constituent link of the undulating link device 30 to be capable of accompanying the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30.
- each of the vehicle support tables 40 is positioned at a pit down position and closes the main opening portion 11A which is a part of the opening 11 of the pit 10
- each of the movable pit covers 50 of the raising/lowering devices 20 closes each half of two left and right halves of the entire sub-opening portion 11B which is the other part (central part sandwiched by the left and right main opening portions 11A) of the opening 11 of the pit 10 that is not closed by the vehicle support table 40 ( FIG. 12 ).
- the movable pit covers 50 of the respective raising/lowering devices 20 open the above-described respective halves of the sub-opening portion 11B of the pit 10 such that each of the undulating link devices 30 can be moved outside of the pit 10 from each half of the sub-opening portion 11B and the main opening portion 11A and separated upward during a process in which each of the vehicle support tables 40 is raised from the lift-down position.
- the movable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/lowering devices 20 is configured to be separated upward from the opening level of the pit 10.
- each of the movable pit covers 50 has side plates 52 fixedly provided at lower portions of the front and rear sides of a flat cover plate 51 as shown in FIGS. 7A to 8 , and is covered to be relatively movable from above so as to be substantially parallel to two link plates 32SP of an assembly constituted by the two link plates 32SP forming the second sub-link 32S of each of the raising/lowering devices 20 and a connecting member 32SR.
- slotted holes 52K provided in the left and right side plates 52 are slidably engaged with a guide roller 55 pivotally supported by one guide bolt 54 on each of the left and right sides implanted in a boss 53 provided on each of the front and rear link plates 32SP.
- a guide washer 56 interposed between a head 54A of the guide bolt 54 and the guide roller 55 is denoted by reference sign 56.
- the slotted hole 52K of the side plate 52 extends in a direction substantially orthogonal to a plate surface of the cover plate 51.
- the movable pit cover 50 is attached to the second sub-link 32 of the undulating link device 30 via the slotted hole 52K, and is relatively movable with respect to the second sub-link 32S in a slotted hole range of the slotted hole 52K.
- the movable pit cover 50 does not immediately accompany the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30, but accompanies the operation with a delay as follows. That is, the movable pit cover 50 is kept at the opening level of the pit 10 without being caused to accompany the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30 between a lift standby stage in which each of the raising/lowering devices 20 positions the vehicle support table 40 at the lift-down position ( FIG.
- the movable pit cover 50 is attached to the second sub-link 32S of the undulating link device 30 via the slotted hole 52K such that the movable pit cover 50 accompanies the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30 with a certain amount of delay corresponding to the slotted hole range of the slotted hole 52K.
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 operates the vehicle support table 40 and the movable pit cover 50 as follows by the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30 ( FIGS. 9 to 11 ).
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 has the movable plate 60 attached thereto.
- each one movable plate 60 corresponding to each of the left and right raising/lowering devices 20 forming a pair is provided. Meanwhile, the single movable plate 60 that is common to the respective raising/lowering devices 20 may be provided.
- the movable plate 60 blocks at least a part of the sub-opening portion 11B (in the embodiment, each half of the sub-opening portion 11B corresponding to both the movable pit covers 50 to be positioned at a pit closing position that is flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15, and forms a work floor on the sub-opening portion 11B.
- the movable plate 60 is positioned at an in-pit housing position to be housed in the pit 10 when the movable pit cover 50 closes the sub-opening portion 11B of the pit 10.
- the movable plate 60 is configured as follows in the embodiment.
- the movable plate 60 is mounted on an X link device 70 provided inside the pit 10, and is raised and lowered between the above-described pit closing position ( FIG. 9 ) and the in-pit housing position ( FIG. 11 ) as a raising/lowering guide roller 62 fixed to a raising/lowering frame 61 of the movable plate 60 is guided by a raising/lowering guide 63 erected on the rack 12.
- the X link device 70 has an X shape in which midpoints of the two links 71 and 72 are pin-coupled, a lower end of the link 71 is pivotally attached to a rotating support portion 73 provided on the rack 12, an upper end of the link 71 is slidably supported by a slotted hole 74A of a sliding (or rolling) support portion 74 provided on the raising/lowering frame 61, a lower end of the link 72 is slidably supported by a slotted hole 75A of a sliding (or rolling) support portion 75 provided on the rack 12, and an upper end of the link 72 is attracted to a rotating support portion 76 provided on the raising/lowering frame 61.
- a tension spring 77 (not shown in FIG.
- a tension spring 78 (not shown in FIG. 10 ) is stretched between the lower ends of the link 71 and the link 72, and a tension spring 78 (not shown in FIG. 10 ) is stretched between the upper ends of the link 71 and the link 72, thereby constantly applying spring forces to the X link device 70 in an extending direction.
- the movable plate 60 is constantly biased in a rising direction by spring forces of the tension springs 77 and 78 acting in the extending direction of the X link device 70, and one end of the slotted hole 75A in the sliding support portion 75 provided in the rack 12 stops a sliding end of the lower end of the link 72 in the extending direction of the X link device 70.
- the X link device 70 is positioned at the pit closing position with a rising end regulated.
- An L-shaped lock arm 64 is pivotally supported by a pivot 64A provided on the rack 12, and an upper end 64B of the lock arm 64 is provided with a roller 64B that abuts on the lower surface of the movable plate 60 at the pit closing position.
- the lock arm 64 is swingable between a lock position where the roller 64B slightly bites one side from a vertical line passing through the pivot 64A and an unlock position where the roller 64B is separated on the other side from the vertical line passing through the pivot 64B.
- the lock arm 64 is constantly biased in a swinging direction toward the lock position by a tension spring 65 stretched between the lock arm 64 and the rack 12, and is positioned at the lock position with a swing limit restricted by a stopper bolt 65K that is provided on the rack 12 while enabling position adjustment. At this time, the lock arm 64 sustains and supports the lower surface of the movable plate 60 at the lock position with the roller 64B, and holds the movable plate 60 at the pit closing position.
- the lock arm 64 is provided with an attached release arm 66 that switches the lock arm 64 between the lock position and the unlock position against a biasing force of the tension spring 65.
- the release arm 66 is pivotally supported by the movable plate 60 at a substantially intermediate portion, and includes rollers 66A and 66B at both ends.
- the release arm 66 constantly causes the roller 66A to abut on a slide surface 64S, which faces the outer side along the left-right direction of the pit 10, along the longitudinal direction of the L-shape of the lock arm 64.
- a release plate 67 is provided on the first link 31 of the undulating link device 30.
- the release arm 66 rotates in an unlock direction and causes the roller 66A to slide along the slide surface 64S of the lock arm 64, displaces the lock arm 64 so as to rise from the lock position side to the unlock position side, and positions the lock arm 64 at the unlock position.
- the movable plate 60 can be raised and lowered between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position without losing the sustaining and holding state by the lock arm 64.
- a pushing roller 68 provided on the intermediate link 33 of the undulating link device 30 pushes an upper surface of the movable plate 60 against the spring forces of the tension springs 77 and 78 so that the movable plate 60 can be pushed into the in-pit housing position by contracting the X link device 70.
- the movable plate 60 of the embodiment is provided with a main plate 60A attached close to a central portion along the left-right direction of the pit 10 on the top of the raising/lowering frame 61 and is provided with a copying plate 60B hinged to an end close to the outer side of the main plate 60A.
- the movable plate 60 at the pit closing position causes the copying plate 60B to be positioned on a horizontal plane that is flush with the main plate 60A. As shown in FIG.
- the movable plate 60 between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position causes a roller 60C included in the copying plate 60B to swing in accordance with a cam piece 60L provided on the first link 31 of the undulating link device 30, and causes the copying plate 60B to be introduced between the first link 31 and the intermediate link 33 of the undulating link device 30 set in the prone state.
- the movable plate 60 is raised and lowered between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position as follows along with raising and lowering operations of the vehicle support table 40 and the movable pit cover 50 performed by the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30.
- the movable plate 60 is raised from the in-pit housing position and is set to the pit closing position in the reverse procedure of the above (1) to (3).
- the vehicle lift device 100 generally performs the lift operation as follows.
- the worker can perform maintenance of the maintenance target vehicle, positioned at the lift-up position by the vehicle support table 40, from below on the above-described work floor formed by the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 and the movable plates 60.
- the raising/lowering actuator 21 causes the undulating link device 30 to be prone from the lift-up state of the above (4) toward the lift-down position (lift stage) of the above (1) in each of the raising/lowering devices 20, the vehicle support table 40, the movable pit cover 50, and the movable plate 60 are displaced from the lift-up position to the lift-down position (lift standby stage) via the lift initial stage in the reverse procedure of the above (1) to (4).
- the cover plate 51 of the movable pit cover 50 in each of the raising/lowering devices 20 serves as a wall surface 51P for maintenance work, and a work instruction sheet or the like can be attached to the wall surface 51P.
- a work table 51A and a parts box 51B as shown in FIG. 22 may be attachable and detached to and from a surface of the wall surface 51P for maintenance work in the cover plate 51 of the movable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/lowering devices 20, or a part of the cover plate 51 can be cut out as shown in FIG. 23 so as to be turned over, and this part can be used as a work table 51C.
- Each of the raising/lowering devices 20 may have seven sections of the rack 12, the first link 31, the second link 32, the first sub-link 31S, the second sub-link 32S, the intermediate link 33, and the vehicle support table 40, and the respective links forming the seven sections may be displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of the vehicle 1, and the undulating link device 30 may be configured to be capable of keeping the vehicle support table 40 in a horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction as shown in FIGS. 24A and 24B or FIGS. 25A and 25B .
- the undulating link device 30 of each of the raising/lowering devices 20 shown in FIGS. 24A to 25B pivotally supports a lower end a of the first link 31 on the rotating support portion 13 provided on the rack 12, slidably supports a lower end a of the second link 32 having a length of 2 ⁇ L1, which is twice a length L1 of the first link 31, by the sliding support portion 14 provided on the rack 12, pivotally attaches an upper end b of the first link 31 to an intermediate link 33 together with a midpoint c of the second link 32, and pivotally attaches an upper end b of the second link 32 to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41).
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a first sub-link 31S having the same length as the first link 31 to the rack 12 and the intermediate link 33 to form a parallelogram link mechanism 20A by four sections of the first link 31, the first sub-link 31S, the rack 12, and the intermediate link 33.
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a second sub-link 32S, which has a length half the length of the second link 32, to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41) and the intermediate link 33 to form the parallelogram link mechanism 20B by four sections of the second link 32, the second sub-link 32S, the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41), and the intermediate link 33.
- both the upper end of the first sub-link 31S and the lower end b of the second sub-link 32S are pivotally attached to the intermediate link 33 at the same point.
- An interval L2 between both the lower ends a of the first link 31 and the first sub-link 31S, an interval L2 between the upper end b of the first link 31 (or the midpoint c of the second link 32) and the upper end b of the first sub-link 31S (or the lower end a of the second sub-link 32S), and an interval L2 between both the upper ends b of the second link 32 and the second sub-link 32S are set to be the same.
- FIGS. 24A and 25A show a lift-up state
- FIGS. 24B and 25B show a lift intermediate state.
- each of the raising/lowering devices 20 can be modified into a raising/lowering device 200 that is configured using a combination of two upper and lower X link devices.
- An undulating link device 201 of each of the raising/lowering devices 200 is configured using a combination of a lower link device 210 supported by the rack 12 and an upper X link device 220 that is mounted on the lower link device 210 and supports the vehicle support table 40.
- the lower link device 210 has two links 211 and 212 that are pin-coupled in an X shape, pivotally supports a lower end of the link 211 by the rotating support portion 13 provided on the rack 12, and slidably supports a lower end of the link 212 by the sliding support portion 14 provided on the rack 12.
- the upper X link device 220 has two links 221 and 222 that are pin-coupled in an X shape, pivotally attaches a lower end of the link 221 to an upper end of the link 211, pivotally attaches a lower end of the link 222 to an upper end of the link 212, pivotally supports the vehicle support table 40 at an upper end of the link 221, and slidably supports the vehicle support table 40 at an upper end of the link 222.
- the movable pit cover 50 is attached to each of the links 221 and 222 of the upper X link device 220 in the same manner as the movable pit cover 50 is attached to the second sub-link 32S in the undulating link device 30 described above.
- FIG. 26A shows a lift-up state
- FIG. 26B shows a lift initial stage
- FIG. 26C shows a lift-down state (lift standby stage).
- the invention further discloses the following vehicle lift device.
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Description
- The present invention relates to a vehicle lift device.
- Conventionally, as described in
Patent document 1, there is a vehicle lift device provided with a pair of left and right raising/lowering devices on both sides in a left-right direction orthogonal to an approach direction of a vehicle in a maintenance work area where the vehicle enters and stops at a maintenance site, each of the raising/lowering devices having an undulating link device constituted by a plurality of links and having a vehicle support table (for example, a lift table and a turning arm) that supports the vehicle mounted on the undulating link device. - In the vehicle lift device described in
Patent document 1, in the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices, each link is displaced along the vehicle approach direction (in other words, a vehicle longitudinal direction). - Patent document 1:
JP 2018-203382 A - The vehicle lift device described in
Patent document 1 has the following problems. - (1) In the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices, each link is displaced along the vehicle longitudinal direction. Therefore, it is necessary to arrange each undulating link device (30) on the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to a portion immediately below the vehicle as shown in
FIGS. 19A to 19C in order to prevent each undulating link device from hindering a maintenance work space for an engine, a suspension system, a transmission, a battery, and the like located around a front wheel and a rear wheel along the vehicle longitudinal direction of a lift target vehicle.
Further, when each of the undulating link devices (30) is arranged on the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the portion immediately below the vehicle, an undulation range of each link is likely to hinder maintenance work spaces W1 and W2 for the vehicle by reaching the maintenance work spaces W1 and W2 on the front wheel side and the rear wheel side along the vehicle longitudinal direction as shown inFIGS. 20B and 20C . Further, if a lift height of the vehicle becomes H2, which is lower than H1, the range that hinders the maintenance work spaces W1 and W2 increases. - (2) According to the above (1), as a result of arranging the undulating link device of each raising/lowering device on the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the portion immediately below the vehicle, each undulating device lifts the vehicle while resisting vehicle weight on the outer side with respect to the portion immediately below the vehicle. Thus, a spring load acting on each link increases, the rigidity required for each link (for example, each width of link elements constituting each link) increases, and as a result, the overall size of the undulating link device increases. This means that an installation space for the undulating link device is increased in the maintenance work area so that it is difficult to secure a wide maintenance work space immediately below the lifted vehicle to improve the maintenance workability.
- (3) In the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices, each link is displaced along the vehicle longitudinal direction. Therefore, the respective undulating link devices are arranged to be line-symmetric with each other, and it is difficult to make the respective undulating link devices common with each other and to share the vehicle support table. Thus, it is difficult to reduce the number of components of each of the raising/lowering devices and the number of assembling steps, and it is difficult to improve the productivity of the vehicle lift device.
- Further, each of the raising/lowering devices has directionality in the vehicle approach direction so that the vehicle approach direction with respect to the vehicle lift device is restricted to one direction.
- An object of the invention is to secure a wide maintenance work space immediately below a lifted vehicle in a vehicle lift device to improve the maintenance workability and to enable improvement of the productivity.
- The invention according to
claim 1 is a vehicle lift device including: a pair of left and right raising/lowering devices provided on both sides in a left-right direction orthogonal to an approach direction of a vehicle in a maintenance work area where the vehicle enters and stops at a maintenance site, each of the raising/lowering device having an undulating link device constituted by a plurality of links; and a vehicle support table that supports the vehicle and is mounted on a top of the undulating link device, in which each of the links of the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction to perform an undulating operation so that the vehicle support table is raised and lowered only in a vertical direction while being kept in a horizontal state by the undulating operation. - The invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to
claim 1, further including a pit provided in the maintenance work area defined on a floor of the maintenance site, in which the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices has at least two links including a first link, which is pivotally supported by a rotating support portion, arranged near one side of the pit along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction inside the pit, and a second link which is slidably supported by a sliding support portion arranged over the one side to another side of the pit along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction inside the pit. - The invention according to claim 3 is the invention according to claim 2, further including a movable plate that is provided at a pit closing position to close a central part of an opening sandwiched between the raising/lowering devices on both sides when the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is raised from the opening of the pit, and is provided at an in-pit housing position to be housed inside the pit when the vehicle support table is lowered to a lift-down position.
- The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to claim 2 or 3, in which, when the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is positioned at a lift-up position and an intersection of the first and second links is arranged to be higher than each of existing front and rear work floors, a triangular inter-link gap, formed immediately below the intersection and above the work floor by being sandwiched between lower edges of the first and second links below the intersection, faces each of the front and rear work floors.
- The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to any one of
claims 1 to 4, in which each of the links constituting the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is configured using an assembly of two link members that form a pair, and each of two link elements constituting each of the link in the raising/lowering device on a left side and each of two link elements constituting each of the links in the raising/lowering device on a right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the vehicle approach direction. - The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to any one of
claims 1 to 5, in which each of the raising/lowering devices has each movable pit cover that is attached to a constituent link of the undulating link device to be capable of accompanying the undulating operation of the undulating link device, and when the vehicle support table is positioned at the lift-down position, the movable pit cover of each of the raising/lowering devices closes a part of the opening of the pit, which is not closed by the vehicle support table in the opening of the pit, and is separated upward from the opening of the pit during a process in which the vehicle support table is raised from the lift-down position. - The invention according to claim 7 is the invention according to claim 6, in which each of the raising/lowering devices pivotally supports a lower end of the first link by the rotating support portion provided on a rack inside the pit, slidably supports a lower end of the second link, which has a length twice a length of the first link, by the sliding support portion provided on the rack inside the pit, pivotally attaches an upper end of the first link to an intermediate link together with a midpoint of the second link, pivotally attaches an upper end of the second link to the vehicle support table, pivotally attaches both ends of a first sub-link, which has an identical length to the first link, to the rack and the intermediate link to form a parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the first link, the first sub-link, the rack, and the intermediate link, and pivotally attaches both ends of a second sub-link, which has a length half the length of the second link, to the vehicle support table and the intermediate link to form a parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the second link, the second sub-link, the vehicle support table, and the intermediate link, and the movable pit cover is attached to the second sub-link.
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- (a) The undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices has each link displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of the vehicle, and keeps the vehicle support table in the horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction. As a result, the vehicle can be lifted while stably supporting left and right lift points (or left and right tires) of the vehicle on the vehicle support table without being pulled in the opposite direction of the left and right.
- (b) In the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices, each link is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction. As a result, it is possible to achieve mitigation of a bending load acting on each link and to reduce rigidity required for each link (for example, a width of the link element constituting each link) since each of the undulating link devices lifts the vehicle while resisting vehicle weight in a wide range from the outer side to the inner side along the vehicle width direction immediately below the lift target vehicle in the maintenance work area. As a result, the overall size of the undulating link device can be made compact. This means that it is possible to reduce an installation space for the undulating link device in the maintenance work area and to secure a wide maintenance work space immediately below the lifted vehicle to improve the maintenance workability.
- (c) In the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices, each link is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction. As a result, each undulating link device is arranged only in a portion immediately below the central portion sandwiched between a front wheel side and a rear wheel side along the vehicle longitudinal direction of the lift target vehicle to move up and down, and thus, it is possible to secure a wide maintenance work space on the front wheel side and the rear wheel side immediately below the vehicle. Moreover, this maintenance work space is constant without being affected by a lift height of the vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to improve the maintenance workability of an engine, a suspension system, a transmission, a battery, and the like located on the front wheel side and the rear wheel side of the vehicle.
- (d) In the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices, each link is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction. Therefore, the respective undulating link devices can be arranged to be point-symmetrical with each other and can be common with each other, and the vehicle support table can be shared with each other, and thus, the number of components of each of the raising/lowering devices is reduced, and the number of assembling steps can be reduced so that the productivity of the vehicle lift device can be improved.
- (Claim 2) (e) The undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices has the first link pivotally supported by the rotating support portion near one side along the left-right direction of the pit, and the second link slidably supported by the sliding support portion near the other side along the left-right direction of the pit. Therefore, each undulating link device lifts the vehicle while stably resisting vehicle weight in the wide range along the vehicle width direction immediately below the lift target vehicle with the two links, that is, the first link moving up and down near the outer side along the vehicle width direction immediately below the lift target vehicle in the maintenance work area and the second link moving up and down near the inner side, thereby stably realizing the above (b).
- (Claim 3) (f) Each of the raising/lowering devices can form the work floor closed by the movable plate at the central part of the opening sandwiched between the raising/lowering devices on both sides when the vehicle support table is raised from the opening of the pit. The worker can perform the maintenance work on a wide work floor formed by the existing work floors on the front and rear of the pit and the work floor formed by the movable plate at the center.
- (Claim 4) (g) When the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is positioned at the lift-up position and an intersection of the first and second links is arranged to be higher than each of existing front and rear work floors, the triangular inter-link gap, which is formed immediately below the intersection and on the upper side of the work floor by being sandwiched by lower edges of the first and second links below the intersection, faces each of the front and rear work floors. When the raising/lowering device is lowered so that this triangular inter-link gap is displaced to be reduced, the worker does not exist below the descending vehicle, and it is possible to eliminate the risk that a foot is pinched in the inter-link gap that is displaced to be reduced.
- (Claim 5) (h) Each of the links constituting the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is configured using the assembly of two link members that form a pair, and each of two link elements constituting each of the link in the raising/lowering device on the left side and each of two link elements constituting each of the links in the raising/lowering device on the right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the vehicle approach direction. Therefore, the area occupied by both the raising/lowering devices in the maintenance site can be reduced. As a result, an earthwork area of the maintenance site can be reduced, and the area of the pit can also be reduced.
- (Claim 6) (i) Each of the raising/lowering devices has each movable pit cover that is attached to a constituent link of the undulating link device to be capable of accompanying the undulating link device, and when the vehicle support table is positioned at the lift-down position, the movable pit cover of each of the raising/lowering devices closes a part of the opening of the pit which is not closed by the vehicle support table in the opening of the pit. At this time, the movable pit cover closes substantially the entire pit opening together with the vehicle support table, and it is possible to allow the vehicle to enter the maintenance work area by forming a pedestrian surface for the worker and forming an approach road surface for a maintenance target vehicle.
Further, a wide maintenance work space that is not hindered by the movable pit cover is secured immediately below the lift target vehicle during maintenance work in which the movable pit cover is separated upward from a part of the opening of the pit during the process of raising the vehicle support table from the lift-down position and the vehicle support table is raised to the lift-up position. - (Claim 7) (j) When each of the raising/lowering devices pivotally supports the lower end of the first link by the rotating support portion provided on the rack inside the pit, slidably supports the lower end of the second link, which has the length twice the length of the first link, by the sliding support portion provided on the rack inside the pit, pivotally attaches the upper end of the first link to the intermediate link together with the midpoint of the second link, pivotally attaches the upper end of the second link to the vehicle support table, pivotally attaches both ends of the first sub-link, which has the identical length to the first link, to the rack and the intermediate link to form the parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the first link, the first sub-link, the rack, and the intermediate link, and pivotally attaches both ends of the second sub-link, which has the length half the length of the second link, to the vehicle support table and the intermediate link to form the parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the second link, the second sub-link, the vehicle support table, and the intermediate link, the vehicle support table can be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction while being kept in the horizontal state as described above (a). Further, the movable pit cover of the above (i) can be attached to the second sub-link.
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a vehicle lift device according to an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 2 is a front view showing the vehicle lift device; -
FIG. 3 is a side view showing the vehicle lift device; -
FIG. 4 is a plan view showing the vehicle lift device; -
FIGS. 5A to 5C show changes of a lift state in an undulating link device,FIG. 5A is a front view showing a lift-up state,FIG. 5B is a front view showing a lift intermediate state, andFIG. 5C is a front view showing a lift initial stage state; -
FIGS. 6A to 6C show constituent links of the undulating link device shown inFIGS. 5A to 5C ,FIG. 6A is a schematic view showing the lift-up state,FIG. 6B is a schematic view showing the lift intermediate state, andFIG. 6C is a schematic view showing the lift initial stage state; -
FIGS. 7A to 7C show a movable pit cover attached to the constituent link of the undulating link device,FIG. 7A is a plan view,FIG. 7B is a front view, andFIG. 7C is a side view; -
FIG. 8 is an enlarged plan view showing a portion VIII inFIG. 7A ; -
FIG. 9 is a front view showing a movable plate set at a pit closing position; -
FIG. 10 is a front view showing the movable plate set at an intermediate position; -
FIG. 11 is a front view showing the movable plate set at an in-pit housing position; -
FIG. 12 is a perspective view showing a lift-down state in which each raising/lowering device of the vehicle lift device is positioned in a lift standby stage; -
FIG. 13 is a perspective view showing a lift initial state in which each raising/lowering device of the vehicle lift device is positioned at a lift initial stage; -
FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing a turning state of a turning arm in each raising/lowering device of the vehicle lift device; -
FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing the movable pit cover associated with the undulating link device in each raising/lowering device of the vehicle lift device; -
FIG. 16 is a perspective view showing a lift intermediate state in which each raising/lowering device of the vehicle lift device is positioned at a lift intermediate position; -
FIG. 17 is a perspective view showing a lift-up state in which each raising/lowering device of the vehicle lift device is positioned at a lift-up position; -
FIGS. 18A to 18C show a configuration of each raising/lowering device in the vehicle lift device,FIG. 18A is a schematic plan view showing a vehicle approach process,FIG. 18B is a schematic front view showing a lift-up state, andFIG. 18C is a schematic front view showing a lift intermediate state; -
FIGS. 19A to 19C show a configuration of each raising/lowering device in a conventional vehicle lift device,FIG. 19A is a schematic plan view showing a vehicle approach process,FIG. 19B is a schematic plan view showing a vehicle approach stop state, andFIG. 19C is a schematic front view showing a lift-up state; -
FIGS. 20A to 20C show a vehicle lift device,FIG. 20A is a side view showing a lift-up state according to an example of the invention,FIG. 20B is a side view showing a lift-up state of a conventional example, andFIG. 20C is a side view showing a lift intermediate state of the conventional example; -
FIGS. 21A to 21C show a pit of a vehicle lift device,FIG. 21A is a schematic plan view showing a pit of an example of the invention,FIG. 21B is a schematic plan view showing a pit of a conventional example, andFIG. 21C is a schematic plan view showing a pit of another conventional example; -
FIG. 22 is a front view showing a modification of the vehicle lift device; -
FIG. 23 is a front view showing another modification of the vehicle lift device; -
FIGS. 24A and 24B show a modification of the undulating link device,FIG. 24A is a schematic view showing a lift-up state, andFIG. 24B is a schematic view showing a lift intermediate state; -
FIGS. 25A and 25B show another modification of the undulating link device,FIG. 25A is a schematic view showing a lift-up state, andFIG. 25B is a schematic view showing a lift intermediate state; -
FIGS. 26A to 26C show a modification of the vehicle lift device,FIG. 26A is a perspective view showing a lift-up state,FIG. 26B is a perspective view showing a lift initial stage state, andFIG. 26C is a perspective view showing a lift-down state; and -
FIGS. 27A to 27C show another modification of the vehicle lift device,FIG. 27A is a perspective view showing a lift-up state,FIG. 27B is a perspective view showing a lift initial stage state, andFIG. 27C is a perspective view showing a lift-down state. - A
vehicle lift device 100 is provided with a pair of left and right raising/loweringdevices 20 on both sides in a left-right direction Y (vehicle width direction) (FIGS. 1 ,12 to 17 ) orthogonal to an approach direction X (vehicle longitudinal direction) of a vehicle 1 (FIGS. 1 ,12 to 17 in a maintenance work area where thevehicle 1 approaches and stops at a maintenance site as shown inFIGS. 1 to 4 . - In the embodiment, a pit 10 (
FIG. 2 ) is recessed in the maintenance work area defined on the floor of the maintenance site, and the pair of raising/loweringdevices 20 are housed inside thepit 10. - Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has an undulatinglink device 30 constituted by a plurality of links, and has a vehicle support table 40 (a lift table 41 and front and rear turningarms 42 and 42) which supports the vehicle and is mounted on the top of the undulatinglink device 30. Specifically, each of the vehicle support tables 40 has the lift table 41 provided on the top of the undulatinglink device 30, and has the front and rear turningarms 42, which enable lifting of a lower surface of thevehicle 1 that has entered the vehicle maintenance work area and stopped, at both front and rear ends of the lift table 41 to be capable of turning. - Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 enables the undulatinglink device 30 and the vehicle support table 40 to move inside and outside thepit 10 through anopening 11 of thepit 10 provided at the same level as the floor of the maintenance site by the operation of a raising/lowering actuator (raising/lowering cylinder device in the embodiment) 21. The undulatinglink device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 performs an undulating operation to be capable of ascending and descending between a lift-down position where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned at each of left and rightmain opening portions 11A (FIG. 1 ), a part of theopening 11 of thepit 10, to close themain opening portion 11A and a lift-up position where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned above thepit 10. - Here, in the undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, each link is displaced along the left-right direction Y orthogonal to the approach direction X of thevehicle 1. Further, the undulatinglink device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 keeps the vehicle support table 40 in a horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction. - The undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 has at least two links including afirst link 31, which is pivotally supported by arotating support portion 13, arranged near one side (near the outer side) of thepit 10 along the left-right direction Y orthogonal to the approach direction X of thevehicle 1 on arack 12 inside thepit 10, and asecond link 32 which is slidably supported by a sliding (or rolling)support portion 14 arranged along the one side (outer side) to the other side (inner side) of thepit 10 along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction X of thevehicle 1 on therack 12 inside thepit 10. - In the embodiment, each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 pivotally supports a lower end a of thefirst link 31 by therotating support portion 13 provided on therack 12 inside thepit 10, slidably supports a lower end a of thesecond link 32 having a length of 2 × L1, which is twice a length L1 of thefirst link 31, by the slidingsupport portion 14 provided on therack 12 inside thepit 10, pivotally attaches an upper end b of thefirst link 31 to anintermediate link 33 together with a midpoint (the center of the length of the second link 32) c of thesecond link 32, and pivotally attaches an upper end b of thesecond link 32 to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41) as shown inFIGS. 5A to 6C . Further, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a first sub-link 31S having the same length as thefirst link 31 to therack 12 and theintermediate link 33 to form aparallelogram link mechanism 20A by four sections of thefirst link 31, the first sub-link 31S, therack 12, and theintermediate link 33. Further, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a second sub-link 32S, which has a length half the length of thesecond link 32, to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41) and theintermediate link 33 to form aparallelogram link mechanism 20B by four sections of thesecond link 32, the second sub-link 32S, the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41), and theintermediate link 33. Each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 attaches amovable pit cover 50, which will be described later, to the second sub-link 32S. - Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 pivotally attaches a cylinder proximal end of the raising/lowering cylinder device constituting the raising/loweringactuator 21 to therack 12, and pivotally supports a distal end of a piston rod of the raising/lowering cylinder device by an intermediate portion of thesecond link 32. - In each of the raising/lowering
devices 20, each of thelinks link device 30 is configured using an assembly, obtained by connecting two link elements (link plates or link bars) (regarding thefirst link 31, a set of twolink plates FIG. 21A ) using a connecting member (regarding thefirst link 31, a connectingmember 31R shown inFIG. 21A ), and each of the two link elements constituting each link in the raising/loweringdevice 20 on the left side, and each of the two link elements constituting each link in the raising/loweringdevice 20 on the right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the approach direction X of thevehicle 1 as shown inFIGS. 1 and21A to 21C . - In the
vehicle lift device 100, on both front and rear sides of thepit 10 in the approach direction X of thevehicle 1, front and rear fixedpit cover 15 are provided to be flush with the floor of the maintenance site (instead of providing the respective fixed pit covers 15, the floor of the maintenance site may be extended to both the front and rear sides of the pit 10). As a result, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 can move the undulatinglink device 30 and the vehicle support table 40 (the lift table 41 and the turning arm 42) inside and outside thepit 10 through the opening 11 (the left and rightmain opening portions 11A and asub-opening portion 11B at the center) sandwiched between the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 in thepit 10 by the operation of the raising/loweringactuator 21, and can ascend and descend between a lift-down position (FIGS. 5C and6C ) where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned at theopening 11 of thepit 10 to close theopening 11 and to be flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 and a lift-up position (FIGS. 5A and6A ) where the vehicle support table 40 is positioned above thepit 10.FIGS. 5B and6B show a lift intermediate state. - At this time, each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has the twoparallelogram link mechanisms first link 31, the first sub-link 31S, and the second sub-link 32S is set to L1 and the length of thesecond link 32 is set to 2 × L1. Thus, the vehicle support table 40 (the lift table 41 and the turning arm 42) can be kept in the horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction along the same vertical line V (FIG. 6 ) as described above. - Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has amovable pit cover 50 that is attached to a constituent link of the undulatinglink device 30 to be capable of accompanying the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30. When each of the vehicle support tables 40 is positioned at a pit down position and closes themain opening portion 11A which is a part of theopening 11 of thepit 10, each of the movable pit covers 50 of the raising/loweringdevices 20 closes each half of two left and right halves of the entiresub-opening portion 11B which is the other part (central part sandwiched by the left and rightmain opening portions 11A) of theopening 11 of thepit 10 that is not closed by the vehicle support table 40 (FIG. 12 ). Further, the movable pit covers 50 of the respective raising/loweringdevices 20 open the above-described respective halves of thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10 such that each of the undulatinglink devices 30 can be moved outside of thepit 10 from each half of thesub-opening portion 11B and themain opening portion 11A and separated upward during a process in which each of the vehicle support tables 40 is raised from the lift-down position. - Here, when the vehicle support table 40 of each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 is positioned at the lift-up position in thevehicle lift device 100, themovable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is configured to be separated upward from the opening level of thepit 10. - In each of the raising/lowering
devices 20, each of the movable pit covers 50 hasside plates 52 fixedly provided at lower portions of the front and rear sides of aflat cover plate 51 as shown inFIGS. 7A to 8 , and is covered to be relatively movable from above so as to be substantially parallel to two link plates 32SP of an assembly constituted by the two link plates 32SP forming the second sub-link 32S of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 and a connecting member 32SR. In each of the movable pit covers 50, slottedholes 52K provided in the left andright side plates 52 are slidably engaged with aguide roller 55 pivotally supported by oneguide bolt 54 on each of the left and right sides implanted in aboss 53 provided on each of the front and rear link plates 32SP. Aguide washer 56 interposed between ahead 54A of theguide bolt 54 and theguide roller 55 is denoted byreference sign 56. The slottedhole 52K of theside plate 52 extends in a direction substantially orthogonal to a plate surface of thecover plate 51. As a result, themovable pit cover 50 is attached to thesecond sub-link 32 of the undulatinglink device 30 via the slottedhole 52K, and is relatively movable with respect to the second sub-link 32S in a slotted hole range of the slottedhole 52K. - As each of the movable pit covers 50 is attached to the
guide roller 55 provided on the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 via the above-described slottedhole 52K, themovable pit cover 50 does not immediately accompany the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30, but accompanies the operation with a delay as follows. That is, themovable pit cover 50 is kept at the opening level of thepit 10 without being caused to accompany the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30 between a lift standby stage in which each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 positions the vehicle support table 40 at the lift-down position (FIG. 12 ) and a lift initial stage in which the vehicle support table 40 starts to be raised from the lift-down position and the turningarm 42 is capable of turning relative to the lower surface of thevehicle 1 at a level above theopening 11 of the pit 10 (FIG. 13 ). Then, in a stage where each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 raises the vehicle support table 40 from the lift initial stage, themovable pit cover 50 is attached to the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 via the slottedhole 52K such that themovable pit cover 50 accompanies the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30 with a certain amount of delay corresponding to the slotted hole range of the slottedhole 52K. - Specifically, each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 operates the vehicle support table 40 and themovable pit cover 50 as follows by the undulating operation of the undulating link device 30 (FIGS. 9 to 11 ). - (1) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 moves up the undulatinglink device 30 on the lift-up side to lift the lift table 41 of the vehicle support table 40, lifts the lift-up position that exceeds, for example, 150 mm from the lift-down position, and positions the turningarm 42 at an upper level exceeding 150 mm above theopening 11 of the pit 10 (each upper surface level of the front and rear fixed pit covers 15), themovable pit cover 50 attached to theguide roller 55 provided on the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 via the slottedhole 52K is supported by the second sub-link 32S such that an upper end of the slottedhole 52K is deposited on theguide roller 55 by its own weight of themovable pit cover 50, and is lifted toward the lift-up position accompanying the movement of the second sub-link 32S based on the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30 as shown inFIGS. 9 and10 . - (2) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 causes the undulatinglink device 30 to be prone from the above (1) and positioned the vehicle support table 40 at the lift initial stage, which is 150 mm above the lift-down position, themovable pit cover 50 abuts on astopper 12K such as a bolt provided in a rising portion of therack 12 and astopper 63K provided in a raising/loweringguide 63 for amovable plate 60 to be described later, and retains an upper surface of thecover plate 51 at the opening level of thepit 10, in other words, a floor position that is flush with the upper surfaces of the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 as shown inFIGS. 11 to 14 . As a result, the movable pit cover 50 forms, together with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15, a pedestrian surface for a worker and an approach road surface for a maintenance target vehicle.
At this time, the undulatinglink device 30 positions the vehicle support table 40 at the lift initial stage as described above, and sets the turningarm 42 provided in the lift table 41 to the upper level, which is 150 mm above theopening 11 of thepit 10, and enables this turningarm 42 to turn with respect to the lower surface of the lift target vehicle as shown inFIGS. 13 and14 . - (3) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 causes the undulatinglink device 30 to be more prone than the above (2), theguide roller 55 provided on the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 moves downward in the slottedhole 52K of themovable pit cover 50 retained at the floor position described in the above (2), and the vehicle support table 40 is set to the lift standby stage to be positioned at the lift-down position as shown inFIGS. 11 and12 . At this time, the lift table 41 of the vehicle support table 40 is retained to be placed on astopper 12L, such as a bolt, provided at the rising portion of therack 12. - When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 erects the undulatinglink device 30 from the lift-down state of the above (3) toward the lift-up side of the above (1) in each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, the vehicle support table 40 and themovable pit cover 50 are displaced toward the lift-up position through the lift standby stage to the lift initial stage in the reverse procedure of the above (1) to (3). - Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has themovable plate 60 attached thereto. In the embodiment, each onemovable plate 60 corresponding to each of the left and right raising/loweringdevices 20 forming a pair is provided. Meanwhile, the singlemovable plate 60 that is common to the respective raising/loweringdevices 20 may be provided. - When the
movable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is separated upward from thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10, themovable plate 60 blocks at least a part of thesub-opening portion 11B (in the embodiment, each half of thesub-opening portion 11B corresponding to both the movable pit covers 50 to be positioned at a pit closing position that is flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15, and forms a work floor on thesub-opening portion 11B. Themovable plate 60 is positioned at an in-pit housing position to be housed in thepit 10 when themovable pit cover 50 closes thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10. - The
movable plate 60 is configured as follows in the embodiment. - That is, the
movable plate 60 is mounted on anX link device 70 provided inside thepit 10, and is raised and lowered between the above-described pit closing position (FIG. 9 ) and the in-pit housing position (FIG. 11 ) as a raising/loweringguide roller 62 fixed to a raising/loweringframe 61 of themovable plate 60 is guided by a raising/loweringguide 63 erected on therack 12. - The
X link device 70 has an X shape in which midpoints of the twolinks link 71 is pivotally attached to arotating support portion 73 provided on therack 12, an upper end of thelink 71 is slidably supported by a slottedhole 74A of a sliding (or rolling)support portion 74 provided on the raising/loweringframe 61, a lower end of thelink 72 is slidably supported by a slottedhole 75A of a sliding (or rolling)support portion 75 provided on therack 12, and an upper end of thelink 72 is attracted to arotating support portion 76 provided on the raising/loweringframe 61. A tension spring 77 (not shown inFIG. 10 ) is stretched between the lower ends of thelink 71 and thelink 72, and a tension spring 78 (not shown inFIG. 10 ) is stretched between the upper ends of thelink 71 and thelink 72, thereby constantly applying spring forces to theX link device 70 in an extending direction. Themovable plate 60 is constantly biased in a rising direction by spring forces of the tension springs 77 and 78 acting in the extending direction of theX link device 70, and one end of the slottedhole 75A in the slidingsupport portion 75 provided in therack 12 stops a sliding end of the lower end of thelink 72 in the extending direction of theX link device 70. As the sliding end of thelink 72 is adjusted by anadjuster portion 75R of the slidingsupport portion 75, theX link device 70 is positioned at the pit closing position with a rising end regulated. - An L-shaped
lock arm 64 is pivotally supported by apivot 64A provided on therack 12, and anupper end 64B of thelock arm 64 is provided with aroller 64B that abuts on the lower surface of themovable plate 60 at the pit closing position. Thelock arm 64 is swingable between a lock position where theroller 64B slightly bites one side from a vertical line passing through thepivot 64A and an unlock position where theroller 64B is separated on the other side from the vertical line passing through thepivot 64B. - The
lock arm 64 is constantly biased in a swinging direction toward the lock position by atension spring 65 stretched between thelock arm 64 and therack 12, and is positioned at the lock position with a swing limit restricted by astopper bolt 65K that is provided on therack 12 while enabling position adjustment. At this time, thelock arm 64 sustains and supports the lower surface of themovable plate 60 at the lock position with theroller 64B, and holds themovable plate 60 at the pit closing position. - The
lock arm 64 is provided with an attachedrelease arm 66 that switches thelock arm 64 between the lock position and the unlock position against a biasing force of thetension spring 65. Therelease arm 66 is pivotally supported by themovable plate 60 at a substantially intermediate portion, and includesrollers release arm 66 constantly causes theroller 66A to abut on aslide surface 64S, which faces the outer side along the left-right direction of thepit 10, along the longitudinal direction of the L-shape of thelock arm 64. Arelease plate 67 is provided on thefirst link 31 of the undulatinglink device 30. When therelease plate 67 of thefirst link 31 descending with the prone operation of the undulatinglink device 30 abuts on theroller 66B of therelease arm 66 and pushes down theroller 66B, therelease arm 66 rotates in an unlock direction and causes theroller 66A to slide along theslide surface 64S of thelock arm 64, displaces thelock arm 64 so as to rise from the lock position side to the unlock position side, and positions thelock arm 64 at the unlock position. When thelock arm 64 is positioned at the unlock position, themovable plate 60 can be raised and lowered between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position without losing the sustaining and holding state by thelock arm 64. That is, when thelock arm 64 is at the unlock position, a pushingroller 68 provided on theintermediate link 33 of the undulatinglink device 30 pushes an upper surface of themovable plate 60 against the spring forces of the tension springs 77 and 78 so that themovable plate 60 can be pushed into the in-pit housing position by contracting theX link device 70. - When the
movable plate 60 is pushed from the pit closing position to the in-pit housing position side, the upper end of the risinglock arm 64 positioned at the unlock position and theroller 64B push an opening/closing lid 60K (FIG. 1 ) provided on themovable plate 60 from below to be open and protrudes outward from such an open window. - Further, the
movable plate 60 of the embodiment is provided with amain plate 60A attached close to a central portion along the left-right direction of thepit 10 on the top of the raising/loweringframe 61 and is provided with a copyingplate 60B hinged to an end close to the outer side of themain plate 60A. Themovable plate 60 at the pit closing position causes the copyingplate 60B to be positioned on a horizontal plane that is flush with themain plate 60A. As shown inFIG. 9 , themovable plate 60 between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position causes aroller 60C included in the copyingplate 60B to swing in accordance with acam piece 60L provided on thefirst link 31 of the undulatinglink device 30, and causes the copyingplate 60B to be introduced between thefirst link 31 and theintermediate link 33 of the undulatinglink device 30 set in the prone state. - Therefore, in each of the raising/lowering
devices 20, themovable plate 60 is raised and lowered between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position as follows along with raising and lowering operations of the vehicle support table 40 and themovable pit cover 50 performed by the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30. - (1) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 moves up the undulatinglink device 30 on the lift-up side, themovable pit cover 50 accompanying the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 is separated upward from thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10, and the pushingroller 68 provided on theintermediate link 33 of the undulatinglink device 30 is positioned on the upper side separated from the upper surface of themovable plate 60, themovable plate 60 is mounted on theX link device 70 positioned at the rising end by the spring forces of the tension springs 77 and 78 to close thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10 and is set at a raised position to be flush with the upper surfaces of the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 as shown inFIG. 9 .
At this time, themovable plate 60 is supported from below by thelock arm 64 that is positioned at the lock position to be in the sustaining state, and is held at the above-described pit closing position to form the work floor that is flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15. - (2) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 causes the undulatinglink device 30 to be prone from the above (1) and therelease plate 67 provided on thefirst link 31 of the undulatinglink device 30 positions thelock arm 64 at the unlock position via therelease arm 66, themovable plate 60 loses the sustaining and holding state by thelock arm 64 to be capable of being raised and lowered between the pit closing position and the in-pit housing position as shown inFIG. 10 .
At this time, the pushingroller 68 provided on theintermediate link 33 of the undulatinglink device 30 pushes the upper surface of themovable plate 60 against the spring forces of the tension springs 77 and 78 so that themovable plate 60 can be pushed toward the in-pit housing position by contracting theX link device 70. - (3) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 causes the undulatinglink device 30 to be more prone from the above (2), themovable pit cover 50 is positioned at the floor position that is flush with the upper surfaces of the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 described above, and the vehicle support table 40 is positioned at the lift-down position that is flush with the upper surfaces of the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 as described above, theX link device 70 is contracted up to a contraction end by the pushingroller 68 provided on theintermediate link 33 of the undulatinglink device 30 to hold themovable plate 60 pushed up to the in-pit housing position as shown inFIG. 11 . - When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 erects the undulatinglink device 30 from the lift-down state of the above (3) toward the lift-up side of the above (1), themovable plate 60 is raised from the in-pit housing position and is set to the pit closing position in the reverse procedure of the above (1) to (3). - The
vehicle lift device 100 generally performs the lift operation as follows. - (1) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 positions the vehicle support table 40 at the lift-down position (lift standby stage) by the undulatinglink device 30, the vehicle support table 40 closes the left and rightmain opening portions 11A of thepit 10 as shown inFIG. 12 .
At the same time, themovable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 closes each half of thesub-opening portion 11B, which is the central part sandwiched between themain opening portions 11A of thepit 10 as shown inFIG. 12 .
As a result, the vehicle support table 40 and themovable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 are positioned at the floor positions flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15, and form a pedestrian surface for the worker and an approach road surface for a maintenance target vehicle together with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 to be flush with the floor of the maintenance site in the maintenance work area. The maintenance target vehicle enters the maintenance work area and stops. At this time, themovable plate 60 is positioned at the in-pit housing position. - (2) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 positions the vehicle support table 40 at the lift initial stage that exceeds, for example, 150 mm from the lift-down position (lift stage) of the above (1) by the undulatinglink device 30, the vehicle support table 40 enables the turningarm 42 to turn with respect to the lower surface of the lift target vehicle so that the turningarm 42 is positioned at a lift point on the lower surface of the maintenance target vehicle as shown inFIGS. 13 and14 .
At this time, themovable pit cover 50 is kept at the floor position that is flush with the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 to keep the pedestrian surface for the worker and the approach road surface for the maintenance target vehicle formed in the above (1). - (3) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 raises the vehicle support table 40 to the lift-up position side from the lift initial stage of the above (2) by the undulatinglink device 30, and the turningarm 42 of the vehicle support table 40 lifts the vehicle via the lift point of the maintenance target vehicle, themovable pit cover 50 is lifted to the lift-up position side on the lower side of the maintenance target vehicle accompanying the movement of the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 and is separated upward from the opening level of the pit 10 (sub-opening portion 11B) as shown inFIGS. 15 and16 . - (4) When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 raises the vehicle support table 40 further to the lift-up position side from the above (3) by the undulatinglink device 30, themovable plate 60 is raised from the in-pit housing position and is positioned at the pit closing position as shown inFIG. 17 . Themovable plate 60 closes at least a part of thesub-opening portion 11B in thepit 10 where themovable pit cover 50 is separated, and forms the work floor on thesub-opening portion 11B. - As a result, the worker can perform maintenance of the maintenance target vehicle, positioned at the lift-up position by the vehicle support table 40, from below on the above-described work floor formed by the front and rear fixed pit covers 15 and the
movable plates 60. - When the raising/lowering
actuator 21 causes the undulatinglink device 30 to be prone from the lift-up state of the above (4) toward the lift-down position (lift stage) of the above (1) in each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, the vehicle support table 40, themovable pit cover 50, and themovable plate 60 are displaced from the lift-up position to the lift-down position (lift standby stage) via the lift initial stage in the reverse procedure of the above (1) to (4). - When the vehicle support table 40 of each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 is positioned at the lift-up position as shown inFIG. 2 in thevehicle lift device 100, thecover plate 51 of themovable pit cover 50 in each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 serves as awall surface 51P for maintenance work, and a work instruction sheet or the like can be attached to thewall surface 51P. - In the
vehicle lift device 100, a work table 51A and aparts box 51B as shown inFIG. 22 may be attachable and detached to and from a surface of thewall surface 51P for maintenance work in thecover plate 51 of themovable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, or a part of thecover plate 51 can be cut out as shown inFIG. 23 so as to be turned over, and this part can be used as a work table 51C. - Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 may have seven sections of therack 12, thefirst link 31, thesecond link 32, the first sub-link 31S, the second sub-link 32S, theintermediate link 33, and the vehicle support table 40, and the respective links forming the seven sections may be displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of thevehicle 1, and the undulatinglink device 30 may be configured to be capable of keeping the vehicle support table 40 in a horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction as shown inFIGS. 24A and 24B orFIGS. 25A and 25B . - The undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 shown inFIGS. 24A to 25B pivotally supports a lower end a of thefirst link 31 on therotating support portion 13 provided on therack 12, slidably supports a lower end a of thesecond link 32 having a length of 2 × L1, which is twice a length L1 of thefirst link 31, by the slidingsupport portion 14 provided on therack 12, pivotally attaches an upper end b of thefirst link 31 to anintermediate link 33 together with a midpoint c of thesecond link 32, and pivotally attaches an upper end b of thesecond link 32 to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41). Further, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a first sub-link 31S having the same length as thefirst link 31 to therack 12 and theintermediate link 33 to form aparallelogram link mechanism 20A by four sections of thefirst link 31, the first sub-link 31S, therack 12, and theintermediate link 33. Further, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 pivotally attaches both ends a and b of a second sub-link 32S, which has a length half the length of thesecond link 32, to the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41) and theintermediate link 33 to form theparallelogram link mechanism 20B by four sections of thesecond link 32, the second sub-link 32S, the vehicle support table 40 (lift table 41), and theintermediate link 33. At this time, both the upper end of the first sub-link 31S and the lower end b of the second sub-link 32S are pivotally attached to theintermediate link 33 at the same point. An interval L2 between both the lower ends a of thefirst link 31 and the first sub-link 31S, an interval L2 between the upper end b of the first link 31 (or the midpoint c of the second link 32) and the upper end b of the first sub-link 31S (or the lower end a of the second sub-link 32S), and an interval L2 between both the upper ends b of thesecond link 32 and the second sub-link 32S are set to be the same. - As a result, in the undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, the constituent links thereof are displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of thevehicle 1, and the vehicle support table 40 can be kept in the horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction.FIGS. 24A and25A show a lift-up state, andFIGS. 24B and25B show a lift intermediate state. - As shown in
FIGS. 26A to 26C , each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 can be modified into a raising/loweringdevice 200 that is configured using a combination of two upper and lower X link devices. - An
undulating link device 201 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 200 is configured using a combination of alower link device 210 supported by therack 12 and an upperX link device 220 that is mounted on thelower link device 210 and supports the vehicle support table 40. Thelower link device 210 has twolinks link 211 by therotating support portion 13 provided on therack 12, and slidably supports a lower end of thelink 212 by the slidingsupport portion 14 provided on therack 12. The upperX link device 220 has twolinks link 221 to an upper end of thelink 211, pivotally attaches a lower end of thelink 222 to an upper end of thelink 212, pivotally supports the vehicle support table 40 at an upper end of thelink 221, and slidably supports the vehicle support table 40 at an upper end of thelink 222. - The
movable pit cover 50 is attached to each of thelinks X link device 220 in the same manner as themovable pit cover 50 is attached to the second sub-link 32S in the undulatinglink device 30 described above. - As a result, in the undulating
link device 201 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 200, the constituent links thereof are displaced along the left-right direction Y orthogonal to the approach direction X of thevehicle 1, and the vehicle support table 40 can be kept in the horizontal state to be raised and lowered only in the extending direction.FIG. 26A shows a lift-up state,FIG. 26B shows a lift initial stage, andFIG. 26C shows a lift-down state (lift standby stage). - Therefore, the following functions and effects are achieved according to the embodiment.
- (a) The undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 has each link displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of thevehicle 1, and keeps the vehicle support table 40 in the horizontal state as shown inFIGS. 5A to 6C to be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction along the same vertical line V shown inFIGS. 6A and 6B . As a result, thevehicle 1 can be lifted while stably supporting left and right lift points (or left and right tires) of thevehicle 1 on the vehicle support table 40 without being pulled in the opposite direction of the left and right. - (b) In the undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, each link is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of thevehicle 1. As a result, it is possible to achieve mitigation of a bending load acting on each link and to reduce rigidity required for each link (for example, a width of the link element constituting each link) since each of the undulatinglink devices 30 lifts thevehicle 1 while resisting vehicle weight in a wide range from the outer side to the inner side along the vehicle width direction immediately below thelift target vehicle 1 in the maintenance work area as shown inFIGS. 18A to 18C . As a result, the overall size of the undulatinglink device 30 can be made compact. This means that it is possible to reduce an installation space for the undulatinglink device 30 in the maintenance work area and to secure wide maintenance work spaces W1 and W2 immediately below the liftedvehicle 1 to improve the maintenance workability as shown inFIGS. 3 and20A . - (c) In the undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, each link is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of thevehicle 1. As a result, each of the undulatinglink devices 30 is arranged only in a portion immediately below the central portion sandwiched between a front wheel side and a rear wheel side along the vehicle longitudinal direction of thelift target vehicle 1 to move up and down, and thus, it is possible to secure the wide maintenance work spaces W1 and W2 on the front wheel side and the rear wheel side immediately below the vehicle as shown inFIGS. 3 and20A . Moreover, these maintenance work spaces W1 and W2 are constant without being affected by a lift height H of thevehicle 1. Therefore, it is possible to improve the maintenance workability of an engine, a suspension system, a transmission, a battery, and the like located on the front wheel side and the rear wheel side of thevehicle 1. - (d) In the undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, each link is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the approach direction of thevehicle 1. Therefore, the respective undulatinglink devices 30 can be arranged to be point-symmetrical with each other and can be common with each other, and the vehicle support table 40 can be shared with each other, and thus, the number of components of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is reduced, and the number of assembling steps can be reduced so that the productivity of the vehicle lift device can be improved.
Each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 has no directionality in the vehicle approach direction, and it is possible to perform maintenance work even if thevehicle 1 approaches from either of two directions along the vehicle approach direction. - (e) The undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 has thefirst link 31 pivotally supported by therotating support portion 13 near one side along the left-right direction of thepit 10, and thesecond link 32 slidably supported by the slidingsupport portion 14 near the other side along the left-right direction of thepit 10. Therefore, each of the undulatinglink devices 30 lifts thevehicle 1 while stably resisting vehicle weight in the wide range along the vehicle width direction immediately below thelift target vehicle 1 with the two links, that is, thefirst link 31 moving up and down near the outer side along the vehicle width direction immediately below thelift target vehicle 1 in the maintenance work area and thesecond link 32 moving up and down near the inner side, thereby stably realizing the above (b). - (f) Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 can form the work floor closed by themovable plate 60 at the central part of the opening sandwiched between the raising/loweringdevices 20 on both sides when the vehicle support table 40 is raised from theopening 11 of thepit 10. The worker can perform the maintenance work on a wide work floor formed by the existing work floors on the front and rear of thepit 10 and the work floor formed by themovable plate 60 at the center. - (g) When the vehicle support table 40 of each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 is positioned at the lift-up position and an intersection of the first andsecond links second links FIGS. 1 and2 . When the raising/loweringdevice 20 is lowered so that this triangular inter-link gap R is displaced to be reduced, the worker does not exist below the descendingvehicle 1, and it is possible to eliminate the risk that a foot is pinched in the inter-link gap R that is displaced to be reduced. - (h) Each of the links constituting the undulating
link device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is configured using the assembly of two link members (a set of the twolink plates device 20 on the left side and each of two link elements constituting each of the links in the raising/loweringdevice 20 on the right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the approach direction X of thevehicle 1 as shown inFIG. 21A . Therefore, the area occupied by both the raising/loweringdevices 20 in the maintenance site can be reduced. As a result, an earthwork area of the maintenance site can be reduced, and the area of thepit 10 can also be reduced.
In a conventional example shown inFIGS. 19A to 19C , an earthwork area of a maintenance site and the area of a pit are large as shown inFIG. 21B or 21C . - (i) Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has eachmovable pit cover 50 that is attached to a constituent link of the undulatinglink device 30 to be capable of accompanying the undulatinglink device 30, and when the vehicle support table 40 is positioned at the lift-down position, themovable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 closes a part of theopening 11 of thepit 10 which is not closed by the vehicle support table 40 in theopening 11 of thepit 10. At this time, themovable pit cover 50 closes substantially theentire opening 11 of thepit 10 together with the vehicle support table 40, and it is possible to allow thevehicle 1 to enter the maintenance work area by forming the pedestrian surface for the worker and forming the approach road surface for themaintenance target vehicle 1.
Further, a wide maintenance work space W3 that is not hindered by themovable pit cover 50 is secured immediately below thelift target vehicle 1 as shown inFIG. 2 during the maintenance work in which themovable pit cover 50 is separated upward from a part of the opening of thepit 10 during the process of raising the vehicle support table 40 from the lift-down position and the vehicle support table 40 is raised to the lift-up position. - (j) When each of the raising/lowering devices 20 pivotally supports the lower end of the first link 31 by the rotating support portion 13 provided on the rack 12 inside the pit 10, slidably supports the lower end of the second link 32, which has the length twice the length of the first link 31, by the sliding support portion 14 provided on the rack 12 inside the pit 10, pivotally attaches the upper end of the first link 31 to the intermediate link 33 together with the midpoint of the second link 32, pivotally attaches the upper end of the second link 32 to the vehicle support table 40, pivotally attaches both ends of the first sub-link 31S, which has the identical length to the first link 31, to the rack 12 and the intermediate link 33 to form the parallelogram link mechanism 20A by four sections of the first link 31, the first sub-link 31S, the rack 12, and the intermediate link 33, and pivotally attaches both ends of the second sub-link 32S, which has the length half the length of the second link 32, to the vehicle support table 40 and the intermediate link 33 to form the parallelogram link mechanism 20B by four sections of the second link 32, the second sub-link 32S, the vehicle support table 40, and the intermediate link 33, the vehicle support table 40 can be raised and lowered only in the vertical direction while being kept in the horizontal state as described above (a). Further, the
movable pit cover 50 of the above (i) can be attached to the second sub-link 32S. - Regarding the embodiment of the invention described above, the invention further discloses the following vehicle lift device.
- <1> Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has each of the movable pit covers 50 that is attached to the second sub-link 32S, which is a constituent link of the undulatinglink device 30, to be capable of accompanying the undulatinglink device 30, and when the vehicle support table 40 is positioned on the lift-down position side, themovable pit cover 50 closes thesub-opening portion 11B, which is the other part of theopening 11 of thepit 10 which is not closed by the vehicle support table 40. Therefore, when the vehicle support table 40 is positioned on the lift-down position side while achieving reduction in size of the vehicle support table 40 in order to enable improvement of the maintenance workability by reducing the range in which the vehicle support table 40 positioned at the lift-up position covers the lower surface of the vehicle or to realize the lighter and more compact vehicle lift device, themovable pit cover 50 that closes thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10 closes substantially theentire opening 11 of thepit 10 including themain opening portion 11A and thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10 together with the vehicle support table 40 that closes themain opening portion 11A of thepit 10 to form the pedestrian surface for the worker, and it is possible to allow the vehicle to enter the maintenance work area by forming the approach road surface for the maintenance target vehicle.
Further, thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10 is open by each of the movable pit covers 50 in the process in which each of the vehicle support tables 40 is raised from the lift-down position so that the undulatinglink device 30 is movable inside and outside thepit 10 through the relativelylarge opening 11 of thepit 10 including thesub-opening portion 11B and themain opening portion 11A. At this time, in the undulatinglink device 30 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20, each link is not necessarily displaced along the left-right direction Y orthogonal to the approach direction X of thevehicle 1, but each link may be displaced along the direction along the approach direction X of thevehicle 1.
That is, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 can be modified into a raising/loweringdevice 300 that is configured using a combination of two upper and lower X link devices as shown inFIGS. 27A to 27C .
Anundulating link device 301 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 300 is configured using a combination of alower link device 310 supported by therack 12 and an upperX link device 320 that is mounted on thelower link device 310 and supports the vehicle support table 40. Thelower link device 310 has twolinks link 311 by therotating support portion 13 provided on therack 12, and slidably supports a lower end of thelink 312 by the slidingsupport portion 14 provided on therack 12. The upperX link device 320 has twolinks link 321 to an upper end of thelink 311, pivotally attaches a lower end of thelink 322 to an upper end of thelink 312, pivotally supports the vehicle support table 40 at an upper end of thelink 321, and slidably supports the vehicle support table 40 at an upper end of thelink 322.
Themovable pit cover 50 is attached to each of thelinks X link device 320 in the same manner as themovable pit cover 50 is attached to the second sub-link 32S in the undulatinglink device 30 according to a first embodiment.
As a result, in the undulatinglink device 301 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 300, the constituent links thereof are displaced along the approach direction X of thevehicle 1.FIG. 27A shows a lift-up state,FIG. 27B shows a lift initial stage, andFIG. 27C shows a lift-down state (lift standby stage). - <2> The vehicle support table 40 of each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 includes the turningarm 42 that can lift the lower surface of the vehicle, which has entered and stopped at the vehicle maintenance work area so as to be capable of turning, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 keeps themovable pit cover 50 at the opening level ofpit 10 without accompanying the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30 between the lift standby stage where each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 positions the vehicle support table 40 at the lift-down position and the lift initial stage where the vehicle support table 40 starts to be raised from the lift-down position to enable the turningarm 42 to turn with respect to the lower surface of the vehicle at a level above theopening 11 of thepit 10. In a stage where each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 raises the vehicle support table 40 from the lift initial stage, themovable pit cover 50 is attached to the constituent link of the undulatinglink device 30 such that themovable pit cover 50 accompanies the undulating operation of the undulatinglink device 30 with a certain amount of delay. As a result, each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 can keep themovable pit cover 50 at the opening level of thepit 10 in the lift initial stage, and raise the turningarm 42 of the vehicle support table 40 to the level above theopening 11 of thepit 10 to be set to a turning-possible level with respect to the lower surface of the vehicle while forming the approach road surface for the maintenance target vehicle in the above <1> by themovable pit cover 50. This means that it is possible to remove a previous vehicle from the maintenance work area, and then, to cause the next vehicle to approach the maintenance work area and to improve the productivity of maintenance work if the turningarm 42 is lowered to the turning-possible level without lowering the vehicle support table 40 from the lift-up position for the previous vehicle to the lift-down position in the lift standby stage every time a plurality of vehicles continuously approaches the maintenance work area and the maintenance work is repeatedly performed. - <3> The
movable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is attached to the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30 via the slottedhole 52K to be relatively movable with respect to the second sub-link 32S in the slotted hole range of the slottedhole 52K, and thus, it is possible to easily realize a relative movement structure of themovable pit cover 50 with respect to the second sub-link 32S of the undulatinglink device 30. - <4> Each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 has themovable plate 60 attached thereto, and themovable plate 60 is set to the pit closing position to close at least a part of thesub-opening portion 11B when themovable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is separated upward from thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10. As a result, when the vehicle support table 40 is raised from the lift-down position, thesub-opening portion 11B of thepit 10 that enables the undulatinglink device 30 to move out of thepit 10 is closed by themovable plate 60, and the work floor for the worker can be formed on themovable plate 60. - <5> The
movable pit cover 50 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is configured to be separated from the opening level of thepit 10 when the vehicle support table 40 of each of the raising/loweringdevices 20 is positioned at the lift-up position. Therefore, the wide maintenance work space that is not hindered by themovable pit cover 50 can be secured immediately below the lift target vehicle during the maintenance work in which the vehicle support table 40 is raised to the lift-up position. - <6> When each of the raising/lowering
devices 20 pivotally supports the lower end of thefirst link 31 by therotating support portion 13 provided on therack 12 inside thepit 10, slidably supports the lower end of thesecond link 32 by the slidingsupport portion 14 provided on therack 12 inside thepit 10, pivotally attaches the upper end of thefirst link 31 to theintermediate link 33 together with thesecond link 32, pivotally attaches the upper end of thesecond link 32 to the vehicle support table 40, pivotally attaches both ends of the first sub-link 31S to therack 12 and theintermediate link 33 to form theparallelogram link mechanism 20A by four sections of thefirst link 31, the first sub-link 31S, therack 12, and theintermediate link 33, and pivotally attaches both ends of the second sub-link 32S to the vehicle support table 40 and theintermediate link 33 to form theparallelogram link mechanism 20B by four sections of thesecond link 32, the second sub-link 32S, the vehicle support table 40, and theintermediate link 33, themovable pit cover 50 in the above <1> is attached to the second sub-link 32S. - As described above, although the embodiments of the invention have been described in detail with reference to the drawings, the concrete configurations of the invention are not limited to the embodiments, and any design alteration or the like within the scope not departing from the gist of the invention is also included in the invention.
- According to the invention, it is possible to secure the wide maintenance work space immediately below the lifted vehicle in the vehicle lift device to improve the maintenance workability and to enable improvement of the productivity.
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- A vehicle lift device comprising:a pair of left and right raising/lowering devices provided on both sides in a left-right direction orthogonal to an approach direction of a vehicle in a maintenance work area where the vehicle enters and stops at a maintenance site, each of the raising/lowering device having an undulating link device constituted by a plurality of links; anda vehicle support table that supports the vehicle and is mounted on a top of the undulating link device,wherein each of the links of the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is displaced along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction to perform an undulating operation so that the vehicle support table is raised and lowered only in a vertical direction while being kept in a horizontal state by the undulating operation.
- The vehicle lift device according to claim 1, further comprising a pit provided in the maintenance work area defined on a floor of the maintenance site,
wherein the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices has at least two links including a first link, which is pivotally supported by a rotating support portion, arranged near one side of the pit along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction inside the pit, and a second link which is slidably supported by a sliding support portion arranged over the one side to another side of the pit along the left-right direction orthogonal to the vehicle approach direction inside the pit. - The vehicle lift device according to claim 2, further comprising a movable plate that is provided at a pit closing position to close a central part of an opening sandwiched between the raising/lowering devices on both sides when the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is raised from the opening of the pit, and is provided at an in-pit housing position to be housed inside the pit when the vehicle support table is lowered to a lift-down position.
- The vehicle lift device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein when the vehicle support table of each of the raising/lowering devices is positioned at a lift-up position and an intersection of the first and second links is arranged to be higher than each of existing front and rear work floors, a triangular inter-link gap, formed immediately below the intersection and above the work floor by being sandwiched between lower edges of the first and second links below the intersection, faces each of the front and rear work floors.
- The vehicle lift device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein
each of the links constituting the undulating link device of each of the raising/lowering devices is configured using an assembly of two link elements that form a pair, and
each of two link elements constituting each of the links in the raising/lowering device on a left side and each of two link elements constituting each of the links in the raising/lowering device on a right side are arranged in an overlapping manner to be different from each other in the vehicle approach direction. - The vehicle lift device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein
each of the raising/lowering devices has each movable pit cover that is attached to a constituent link of the undulating link device to be capable of accompanying the undulating operation of the undulating link device, and
when the vehicle support table is positioned at the lift-down position, the movable pit cover of each of the raising/lowering devices closes a part of the opening of the pit, which is not closed by the vehicle support table in the opening of the pit, and is separated upward from the opening of the pit during a process in which the vehicle support table is raised from the lift-down position. - The vehicle lift device according to claim 6, wherein
each of the raising/lowering devices
pivotally supports a lower end of the first link by the rotating support portion provided on a rack inside the pit, slidably supports a lower end of the second link, which has a length twice a length of the first link, by the sliding support portion provided on the rack inside the pit, pivotally attaches an upper end of the first link to an intermediate link together with a midpoint of the second link, pivotally attaches an upper end of the second link to the vehicle support table,
pivotally attaches both ends of a first sub-link, which has an identical length to the first link, to the rack and the intermediate link to form a parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the first link, the first sub-link, the rack, and the intermediate link, and
pivotally attaches both ends of a second sub-link, which has a length half the length of the second link, to the vehicle support table and the intermediate link to form a parallelogram link mechanism by four sections of the second link, the second sub-link, the vehicle support table, and the intermediate link, and
the movable pit cover is attached to the second sub-link.
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